tinyurl

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "pengolodh_sc"
<pengolodh_sc at ...> wrote:

> Anyway, when you're faced with long URLs, you can use tinyurl.com or 
> similar services to make a short redirection link that will lead to 
> the same page - in the case of this Times Online article, the URL is:
> http://tinyurl.com/2xhllr

What does tinyurl get out of providing this helpful service to lots of
people? I suppose they must have a huge server to store all a look-up
table matching all the short names they've given out with the long
actual urls, and servers cost money.